Diane Ackerman Quotes
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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I may make light of being a domestic terrorist, but if they can brand me a domestic terrorist and confiscate all my materials, and then expand into confiscating other people's materials, and then go after Gibson Guitars and so many other different people... they can go after you, they can go after everybody, we could all be "terrorists." That's really the big concern.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Hopefully, ... as we go here in preseason, we'll get in groove with our whole offense.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
